The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the the ...

Humans have launched a whole lot of hardware into orbit around Earth, and every once in a while, two of those objects end up on a collision course. As Space.com reports, two satellites are on a ...

Starlink collision risk SpaceX received additional backlash in September 2019, when the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that it had directed its Aeolus satellite to undertake evasive ...

A new study from the University of British Columbia reveals the growing danger of falling space debris striking an airplane.

Just as we are reckoning with how to conserve ecosystems on Earth for future living creatures, we must think of space as an environment worthy of preservation. In fact, reforming how we operate in ...

During the first six missions, the X-37B spent more than 3,774 days in orbit. It launched on its current mission, OTV-7, on Dec. 28, 2023, and passed 400 days in orbit on Jan. 31. By comparison, the ...

Geomagnetic storms also cause problems on Earth. The electric currents they create can overload power plants and cause ...

As more satellites, telescopes, and other spacecraft are built to be repairable, it will take reliable trajectories for ...

To make space servicing safer and more efficient, researchers created a fuel-efficient, collision-free trajectory optimization method for CubeSats. Their algorithm allows small spacecraft to work ...